News – Page 14
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NewsSlaughter and May bows to pressure on gender pay reports
Firm includes partners in annual data return after criticism last year for perceived lack of transparency.
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NewsClifford Chance reports sexuality and disability pay gap
Gender pay gap widens slightly in most categories but data for other characteristics breaks new ground.
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NewsHijab protest lawyer gets 33 years after secret trial
According to rights campaigners, Nasrin Sotoudeh has been found guilty on seven charges.
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NewsLinklaters achieves 20% female partnership for first time
Firm has revealed details of latest round of promotions.
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NewsNews focus: Equality still a work in progress
New Law Society research confirms that tackling unconscious bias, fair pay and promoting widespread flexible working are key elements needed to achieve gender equality in the legal profession.
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NewsInternational Women's Day: is partnership a postcode lottery?
Thousands of women lawyers reveal what is holding them back at work in landmark Law Society research. One factor is where they live.
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NewsLawyers drawing up NDAs could be breaking the law, MPs told
Academic tells select committee that some solicitors ‘out of kilter’ with professional duties.
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NewsTravers Smith operations chief moves to head KPMG legal services arm
Legal Operations & Transformation Services now runs in four countries.
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NewsCompensation boost for crime victims who lived with attacker
Ministry of Justice lays down statutory instrument to scrap 'same-roof' rule.
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NewsJudge ignores family commitment pleas to demand application
Criminal bar chief says representative bodies will draft their own protocol for reasonable working hours if they have to.
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NewsReporting harassment incidents and outcomes should be mandatory, urges lawyer
Managing director of Didlaw says harassment should be taken into same ’name and shame’ territory as gender pay regulations.
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NewsBar confident it can overcome ‘testosterone overdose’
Representative body says it has a number of initiatives to support women.
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NewsRenewed call for quotas to help women become equity partners
Founder of groundbreaking project says too many senior women are promoted but have no voting power.
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NewsJudicial diversity? It's up to law firms, says lord chief justice
Lord Burnett asks what more needs to be done to create 'a properly diverse profession at its senior levels'.